[NetBehaviour] Fwd: [Humanist] 27.480 crowdsourcing the Slade

[Rob Myers]

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Subject: [Humanist] 27.480 crowdsourcing the Slade
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 07:21:40 +0100 (CET)
From: Humanist Discussion Group <willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk>
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                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 480.
            Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London
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        Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 15:43:18 +0000
        From: Melissa Terras <melissaterras at gmail.com>
        Subject: New Crowdsourcing Project - Crowdsourcing the Slade
School of Art Class Photos

Dear Willard et al,

UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, in conjunction with the Slade School
of Fine Art, are pleased to announce the launch of a new crowdsourcing
project to help us identify students in the class photos.

The Slade School of Fine Art has a fascinating, but currently
incomplete, collection of annual class photographs dating from 1931. The
black and white panoramic images reflect the school’s rich history,
capturing the likeness of Slade students and faculty through the decades.

We are asking former staff and students, scholars and members of the
public to help us complete the collection and identify the sitters
through a new website designed by UCL Centre for Digital Humanities.
We've already listed all of those who appear in the 1953 photograph
(http://sladearchive.github.io/groups/SLADE_1953_A/), including William
Coldstream, Lucien Freud, Henry Moore, Sam Ntiro, and Paula Rego. Can
you help us identify other faces in the photos?

The feedback provided by visitors to the site will result in a dynamic
archive and research resource, giving us an opportunity to compare
crowdsourcing platforms and begin to trace the impact of Slade alumni
around the world.

This project is a collaboration between UCL Centre for Digital
Humanities and the Slade School of Fine Art, as part of the Slade
Archive Project. (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/sladearchive)

Slade class photos http://sladearchive.github.io/index.html

Follow the Slade Archive Project blog
http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/slade-archive-project/

Slade School of Fine Art http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade

UCL Centre for Digital Humanities http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dh
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Melissa M. Terras MA MSc DPhil CLTHE CITP FHEA
Director, UCL Centre for Digital Humanities
Professor of Digital Humanities
Department of Information Studies
Foster Court
University College London
Gower Street
WC1E 6BT

Tel: 020-7679-7206 (direct), 020-7679-7204 (dept), 020-7383-0557 (fax)
Email: m.terras at ucl.ac.uk
Web: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/melissa-terras/
Blog: http://melissaterras.blogspot.com/
Twitter: @melissaterras



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